5 Times Clint Eastwood Taught Us To Be A Badass

Sarah Benecke | January 20, 2015
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Clint Eastwood is known as a badass in movies, but he's also a badass in real life.  Here are 5 times the movie star and famous director taught what it is to be B.A. 
 

1. Eastwood Lays The Smack Down On Michael Moore.

In 2005, at the National Board Review dinner, both Clint Eastwood and Michael Moore were present and being honored for their films. When Eastwood accepted his award, he said,

"Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common – we both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression, But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera – I’ll kill you.” The audience and Moore laughed. Eastwood then said, “I mean it. . .”

via MRCTV

 

2. Clint Eastwood Talking To An Empty Chair.

Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention in 2012. He talked to an empty chair, where he pretended President Obama was sitting. 

 

3. Clint Eastwood Survived A Plane Crash. 

In Eastwood’s biography, he gives details of a plane crash that he survived. It was in 1951, when he got into a Douglas AD-1 military aircraft to ride from Seattle to Sacramento. It was just Eastwood and the pilot since the plane could hold only two people. There was a technical malfunction which caused the pilot to perform a crash landing at sea. The plane was sinking so the two jumped off the wing of the plane and started to swimming towards the shoreline. They had promised to try and stay with each other.

And then it started getting dark, and I lost him. I didn’t know whether he was alive or where the hell he was. And I wasn’t about to start yelling, because it wastes a lot of energy. I went through jellyfish schools and all kinds of things, and they became fluorescent at night. It was like some science-fiction deal. By this time, you know, your mind is–talking about hallucinating…

Eastwood was able to see the shoreline because the phosphorus was glowing brightly due to the kelp bed he swam through. He saw an area where it appeared to be less rocky.

I kind of worked my way into that–just partly luck, because everywhere the water was very rough. And I got into this spot and had a really rough time climbing out.

Eastwood was able to make it to the beach but he thought he kept seeing the pilot in the water. He would go back in the water only to realize that it was just rocks. Eastwood climbed out of the cove and saw a bright light in the distance. He was barefoot and freezing cold but walked towards that light. He had to cross a lagoon, hopped a fence, and finally got to a building. Eastwood was picked up and taken to the Coast Guard Station. He was reunited with the pilot who had survived. 

via The Scuttlefish

 

4. Calling Out This Generation For Being A "Pussy Generation."

In an interview with Esquire, Eastwood called out this generation for how it acts. This is what he had to say about the current generation. 

We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody’s become used to saying, “Well, how do we handle it psychologically?” In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you’d be left alone from then on.

I don’t know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life.

via FSR

 

5. Dedication To His Characters.

Clint Eastwood is allergic to horses and, even though he is, he has still worked with them in countless movies. For his role in the movie "The Eiger Sanction," he learned how to rock climb. He felt the scenes were too dangerous for him to pay a stuntman to do it, so he decided he was going to be the one to do it. Eastwood is an accomplished jazz pianist. He often performs much of the music for his movies, including the scene in the bar in the movie “In the Line of Fire.” Finally, he is often seen smoking in his movies, however, he actually is a life long non-smoker. 

via The Independent and IMDB

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